A-05, 798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Rd, 

Chaoyang District, Beijing

ABOUT THE EXHIBITON

TRIUMPH GALLERY is pleased to announce In Other Places: The Painting Practice of Nashunbatu, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, from September 23rd to November 12th, 2023. The exhibition, curated by Su Wei, showcases a chapter of Nashunbatu’s painting practice since his relocation to Germany in 2000, with more than 20 paintings on view. 

The paintings of Nashunbatu demonstrate a peculiar synthesis: he has simultaneously applied on a single canvas an array of painterly techniques and modes of expression that he has mastered or continued to explore. It became almost impossible for the audiences to pinpoint the artist’s formal training background and stylistic preference. At the same time, Nashunbatu incorporates a variety of painterly “dialects” into his repertoire, formulating a singular creative practice marked by its incoherence.

Nashunbatu, who has been living in Germany for a while, made no effort to hide his interest in the “middle ground” and “multiculturalism” that transcend the influence of different contexts.The embodiment of such interest manifests in his painting by negating contexts, identities, and any accompanying factors, national or regional. His command over the imaginative space in his compositions comes more from a pursuit of decontextualization and intuition. On the other hand, aesthetic experience under the rendition of Nashunbatu presents itself as multifaceted: the picture and the mental and psychological space it entails are infinitely delayed by the critique and reconstruction of painting conventions he imbues into his compositions, while the introduction and clash of multiple painting “dialects turns” the aesthetic experience here into an eternal act that happens in other places/absent.



ARTIST

Nashunbatu was born in Hangjin Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia in 1969. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Inner Mongolia Normal University in 1989. From 2000 to 2006, he studied at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig, Germany, where he was awarded the Scholarship of the Foundation for Cultural Heritage of Braunschweig (SBK) in 2006. 


Nashunbatu lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. He mainly works with contemporary oil paintings.


Current group exhibitions and solo exhibitions: Museum Abtei Liesborn, Liesborn, Germany; He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; Busan International Art Festival, Korea; 021 International Art Fair, Shanghai, China; Kunststation Kleinsassen, Germany; Kiaf International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea; New Paintings, Huebner + Huebner Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany; Kunstmuseum Beida, Bitburg, Germany; Overseas Chinese Painting in Chinese Ink and Grassland Inner Mongolia Museum of Art, Hohhot, China; Forest. Wolf. Wilderness, Villa Rotter Museum, Germany, Conscious and Unconscious, Huebner + Huebner Gallery, Frankfurt; Nashunbatu Paintings, Schentana Art Museum, Inner Mongolia, China; Nashunbatu New Paintings, Yeimen Gallery, Beijing, China; Under the Dome, Art Museum, Huhhot, China; Searching for the Source - Ordos - Chinese Oil Painting Invitational Exhibition, Ordos Exhibition Center, China; NEW MASTERS, Galerie Jörg Heitz, Munich, Germany; A Wind-Up Bird on Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami, Frankfurt, Germany; Nashunbatu Paintings, Schentana Art Museum, Inner Mongolia, China; Nashunbatu New Painting, Galerie Eimen, Germany; A Wind-Up Bird on Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami and Contemporary Art,Tel Aviv, Israel; Liebeslust Lebenslast, Schloss Corvey Palace, Germany; BS-VISITE, Braunschweig, Germany; Return, Exhibition Hall of Inner Mongolia Normal University Art Academy, Hohhot, China; China Inner Mongolia Normal University College of Art, Hohhot, China; Kaukosna, Ordos Art Museum, Ordos, China; ENT-DECKUNG, Schuebbe Ins., Dusseldorf, Germany.